Posted by dorayme on 12/03/14 11:47

In article <44667237$0$8340$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>,
"ste" <0@0.com> wrote:

> "Toby Inkster" <usenet200605@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:jjuhj3-7gl.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk...
> > ste wrote:
> >
> >> I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of a simple
> >> vertical
> >> menu that has collapsible/expandable menu options?
> >
> > http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/menu/menu2
> >
> > --
> > Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> > Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> That's how I want it to work, but wonder if you have an even simpler example
> that was just text on it's own, i.e. without the border around the link or
> the plus/minus signs?

What is stopping you? You can dispense with the img signs and
choose white or transparent for colours.

Yes, TI's nicely conserves space and it is easier to allow for
vertical in a menu nav bar.

But let me add a word on this stuff:

Think if it is really all that useful to have so much of the
navigation right there and then. Quite often, if it is so much
more than what is reasonable to simply display (certainly OP's
first example of about 4 links and one expansion of about 4 more
was not a case for drop downing), consider just not having the
expansion at all. If some one wants to know what that link is
about, it is simple enough. It is a link and goes somewhere. That
is where the "expansion" is evident.

Yes, I know it may seem as if one is so much neater and useful
than the other. But mostly it is more show than useful:

When the links are displayed in a page that is nothing really to
do with the meaning of the set displayed, they are less useful. A
home page simply can't have everything on it and it is a mistake
to try. When do you stop? The same set is instantly meaningful
displayed up front on the page that is especially relevant to the
set - a local set of links.

Everything depends on everything else. If you make your pages
load fast as you should, going to it rather than fiddling (and
yes, I mean fiddling... one has to put energy into holding the
mouse still when in a hurry) with hover is as quick.

This way of thinking might then free you from even needing js or
possibly cross browser challenged hover dropdown css

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dorayme

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